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Most Recent in Politics:

1Texas Legislature Set to (Slightly) Expand Medical Marijuana Access

2Death Penalty Reform Bill Gets Watered Down to ‘Nothing’ Before Passing Senate

3Trump Megadonor and Houston Mayoral Candidate Is a Top Sponsor for Democratic Fundraiser with Hillary Clinton

4Texas Has the Highest Uninsured Rate in the Country. Lawmakers Haven’t Addressed it This Session.

5In the Texas Legislature’s Final Days, Republicans Find New Ways to Attack Voting Rights

6Ready, Set, File: Transparency Bills Passed by Legislature Could Open the Door to Once-Public Records

Most Recent in Environment:

1Carbon Sequestration Isn’t The Long-Term Solution. Is it a Short-Term One?

2Report: Oil and Gas Producers May Be Pushing the Permian Basin Past Federal Air Quality Limits

3The EPA Told Texas to Crack Down on Dangerous Air Emissions in 2015. The State Never Did, and Now It Won’t Have to.

4The Flood Next Time

5Port of Corpus Christi Pushes Ahead with Oil Terminal Project, Environment Be Damned

6Bucking the Reign of Oil

Most Recent in Border:

1Unearthing Resistance

2The Flood Next Time

3Henry Cuellar and the Art of the Deal

4Engineer Who Helped Build the Wall Details Its Weaknesses

6Documents: CBP Ignored Federal Biologists’ Input on Border Wall

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Death Penalty Reform Bill Gets Watered Down to ‘Nothing’ Before Passing Senate

2With a Bizarre Assist by Democrats, Police Groups Kill Bill to Limit Arrests for Fine-Only Offenses

4‘The Penal System Today is Slavery’: Lawmakers Finally Start to Talk About Unpaid Labor in Texas Prisons

5Four Years Later, Sandra Bland’s Arrest Continues to Sow Distrust in Law Enforcement

6Immune from Justice

Most Recent in Education:

1Texas House Considers Free College For Students Experiencing Homelessness

2‘The Wolf is in the Henhouse’

3‘We’re Not Stupid’: Texas Teachers Take on Dan Patrick and the Legislature over Dismal Education Funding

4In Violation of Texas Law, Most High Schools Aren’t Giving Students the Chance to Register to Vote

5Amid Record Youth Suicide Attempts, Texas Lags in Prevention Training for Teachers

6Cash-Strapped Rural Texas Schools Look to Universities for Help

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Texas Legislature Set to (Slightly) Expand Medical Marijuana Access

2Texas Has the Highest Uninsured Rate in the Country. Lawmakers Haven’t Addressed it This Session.

3Despite GOP Support in House, Bill to Provide Contraception to Low-Income Teens Stalls in Senate

4Texans ‘Will Die’: House Republicans Pass Anti-Planned Parenthood Bill After Emotional Debate

5Yes, I am a Sorceress

6Texas House Votes to Significantly Expand Medical Marijuana Law

Most Recent in The Interview:

2The Interview: Mass Resistance

3Meet Jim Allison, Texas’ Newest Nobel Laureate (and Three-Time Cancer Survivor)

4Dolores Huerta is Still Knocking on Doors and Registering Voters at 88

5The Interview: Veronica Escobar is Poised to Make History

6Redistricting Guru Michael Li on Texas’ Gerrymandered Maps

Most Recent in Books:

1Beasts of the Border

2Invasive Species Have Reshaped Texas. Now What?

3A New Crime Novel Asks Tough Questions About Revenge and Redemption

4A New Book on the American Political Divide Calls, Unconvincingly, for Civility

5Swamp City Serenade

6A Sweeping History of Texas Blues Celebrates Little-Known Musicians

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1Ghosts of the Baker Hotel

2At Home in the World

3Plight at the Museum

4The Texas Observer’s Best Features of 2018

5East Texas Photographer Captures 50 Years of Haunting, Ordinary Magic

6Who Writes History? The Fight to Commemorate a Massacre by the Texas Rangers

Most Recent in Essay:

1Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

2The Trouble with Yoga

3Heads in the Mud

4The Day the Windows Shook

5Women’s Work

6I Grew Up on the Texas-Mexico Border, but Now I Barely Recognize It

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Charlotte Moore

2Eye on Texas: ‘My Joyful Dance’

3Eye on Texas: Ghosts of the City

4Eye on Texas: Fiesta Protesta

5Eye on Texas: Remembering Draylen Mason

6Eye on Texas: Gentrification in East Austin

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

2Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

3Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

4Parallel Planes

6Poem: ‘Resistance’

Tag Archives: child refugees

by Rose Cahalan

Photo Exhibit in Houston Changes the Narrative on Refugees

"There is no room for dignified depiction of refugees, and they’re not shown as human beings with hopes and plans to go back to normal life."

Wed, Jul 12, 2017 |

The United States will shut its doors to most refugees on Wednesday, as the nation has just reached the Trump administration’s 50,000-person fiscal year reset...Read More

"A Clockwork Orange"

by Forrest Wilder

The Things We Feared, 2014

Wed, Dec 31, 2014 |

As the year 20 and 14 draws, blessedly, to a close, let us reflect on that one thing that brought us together: fear. This was a year that saw a succession of fr...Read More

migrant children

by Marsha Griffin

Doctors With Borders

A Brownsville pediatrician sets the story straight about the children and families crossing the border into Texas.

Mon, Sep 29, 2014 |

A Brownsville pediatrician sets the story straight about the children and families coming to Texas....Read More

by Forrest Wilder

Congressman Beto O’Rourke: There is No Border Crisis

Thu, Jul 24, 2014 |

For Congressman Beto O’Rourke (D-El Paso), the response to the influx of refugees from Central America is sickeningly out of touch with reality. ...Read More

by Patrick Michels

Officials: Undocumented Children Won’t Break Texas Schools

Mon, Jul 21, 2014 |

Despite the freak-out over undocumented Central American children stealing desks from Texas kids, schools say they're prepared for next school year....Read More

WTF Friday: Playing Cowboys and Illegal Aliens

by Forrest Wilder

Fri, Jul 18, 2014

Rick Perry, Steve Toth and the tea party want to know, What part of Ill-Eagle didn't these Central American kids understand?...Read More

by Forrest Wilder

Rick Perry on Child Refugees: Deport ‘Em All

Thu, Jul 3, 2014 |

Rick Perry has a plan for the thousands of refugee children streaming across the border from Mexico and Central America: Deport them at once. At a congressional...Read More

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